It’s rare for someone to be a G.M. for tens years with one team these days. Ten years does provide for some “body of work” analysis. Therefore, I thought it would be fun, this off-season, to take a look back at Cashman’s “moves” during the past decade – one year at a time. (I’ll try and post one year, per week, over the next ten weeks.)

Here, we’ll look at Cashman’s moves in 2000 and how they helped or hurt the team:

No Impact:

January 26, 2000 – Signed Roberto Kelly as a free agent.

April 2, 2000 – Signed Lance Johnson as a free agent and signed Felix Jose as a free agent.

Was Probably Not A Cashman Move & More Likely Something Done In Tampa:

June 11, 2000 – Signed Dwight Gooden as a free agent.
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This season was much, much, better than the two before it – in terms of pushing buttons and pulling strings. But, it does raise an interesting question. For people like me, who believe that the G.M. is responsible for the team’s moves, at the end of the day, you have to give Cashman two huge thumbs up for the work here in 2000. However, for those who like to say that Cashman did not gain total control of the team until 2005, well, to be fair, those people can’t give Cashman credit for all these good to great moves in 2000 – can they? This make sense?

Comments on Brian Cashman 2000

Not sure what you define as “bad impact” but I’m not sure you can put Canseco on the list. Granted his acquisition was a surprise (mainly to the FO), but I believe he was productive in his time in NY. Grimsley, IIRC had a bad year and was let go. I don’t think Adrian Hernandez had much of an impact.

Sean Henn is a major league caliber player, albiet barely, and was drafted in the 26th round. That’s above average for someone drafted late. There is still a possibility he becomes a league average lefty reliever. How is that bad, when the barely-better Matt Smith is a good move?

Ah, yes, the steroid Yankees of 2000! Quite frankly, my retrospective enjoyment of this team has taken a fatal hit.

I wonder if Cashman leveraged baseball’s lax steroids policy at the time as a way to acquire players at cut-rate trade prices. With the tougher penalties in place, it seems that Cashman has lost his magic touch, eh?

If Cashman did acquire talent in this way, I agree with Steve and think that he should be fired.

Sean Henn was a draft and follow. He exploded in junior college the year after being drafted and thus the big bonus. A lefty throwing at 97? Who wouldn’t have given him the money. Then came Tommy John surgery. Another example of how players don’t always recover that well from such an operation.

With the tougher penalties in place, it seems that Cashman has lost his magic touch, eh?
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How so? I don’t see it. The “steroid yankees” only won 87 games. They were played pretty evenly in the playoffs.

looks like he is getting charged for vehicular homicide. That stinks
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Yeah, especially for the dead 30-year-old woman and her family…
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I hadn’t finished the sentence and hit Post prematurely, but I do echo the sentiments made by the other posters.

~~~Sean Henn is a major league caliber player, albiet barely, and was drafted in the 26th round. That’s above average for someone drafted late. There is still a possibility he becomes a league average lefty reliever. How is that bad, when the barely-better Matt Smith is a good move?~~~

They paid a record bonus for Henn – hence, the bust. And, yes, for Smith, it was because he became a useful trading chip.